Peter Dujardin

Peter Dujardin has been a reporter at the Daily Press for 20 years, and a reporter for 23 years.

He has mostly covered courts and criminal justice issues for the past nine years. That includes criminal and civil cases, focusing in large part on Hampton, Newport News, and federal courts.

He also does investigative projects on criminal justice, to include working to undo wrongful convictions, delving into questions about an undercover police sting, and other issues.

A senior reporter at the Daily Press, Peter previously covered business, transportation, ports and the Newport News shipyard. He also has spent time covering schools and was the paper's lead editorial writer for about a year.

He holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Providence College, and a Master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

He was a two-year intern for the Providence Journal and also worked as a sports reporting intern for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C.

Recent Articles

Justices at the state’s highest court seemed in no rush on Wednesday to release a deaf and mute defendant who’s being held without trial in a 2005 murder case from James City County. And one justice said that Oswaldo Elias Martinez and his lawyers should use an altogether different approach — a...

Community activist and congressional candidate Shaun Brown was found guilty Tuesday of bilking a federal program that provides summertime meals for needy children. Following a five-day trial in U.S. District Court in Newport News, the 12-member jury voted to convict Brown, 59, of Hampton, of all...

It’s been more than 13 years since Oswaldo Elias Martinez was charged in a brutal rape and slaying in James City County. Martinez — a deaf and mute immigrant from El Salvador — was charged with capital murder and other crimes after 16-year-old Brittany Binger was found dead near the entrance to...

A York County-based fishing boat — the Captain Billy Haver — was 55 miles off the coast of Massachusetts a few weeks ago, dredging scallops from the sea. Then, seemingly out of the blue, a crew member started attacking his shipmates with a hammer. It was 2 p.m. when the vessel’s captain radioed...

A home in a Hampton trailer park was destroyed by fire early Friday morning — displacing the six residents who lived there. And investigators are still working to determine a cause of the blaze. The fire at 133 Old Aberdeen Road, off West Pembroke Avenue, was called in at about 12:45 a.m., Hampton...

Newport News Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 30-year-old man wanted on several felony charges in the city. Earl Donita Wiggins, of the 200 block of Pacific Drive in Hampton, is wanted on charges of robbery, abduction, sodomy, three counts of using a gun in a felony and one...

A man was shot in Hampton on Friday night and was taken to a hospital with wounds that were not deemed life-threatening. It was the latest in a series of shootings in the city this week — one of them fatal. An emergency 911 dispatcher said Saturday morning that Friday night’s shooting occurred...

A Hampton man has been charged in federal court with making several bomb threats one morning in early August to distract police while he robbed a bank. Oscar Von Alston II, 31, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Newport News this week on charges of robbing a Virginia Educators Credit Union...